John Lee Hancock Quotes
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I don't like controversy.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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I'm always forming bands.
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Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
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The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
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When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
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We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.
